Sword and sorcery
Think of a muscled hero with a blade, a sorceress with a grudge, and a world where the monsters are real and the castles are older than memory. Sword and sorcery keeps coming back to small, stubborn people facing huge, ancient evils with nothing but nerve and a sharp edge. It is pulpy, loud and gleefully unembarrassed, and it leaves you wanting to ride out after dark with a good weapon and a worse plan.
